The power to redelineate electoral constituencies is provided for in Article 113 of our Federal Constitution. In that provision, it is stated that the redelineation of the electoral constituencies shall be made within a period of not less than eight years and not more than 10 years from the completion of the previous review. The last time our Election Commission (EC) conducted and completed the redelineation exercise was in 2003 and so, the time is up again for the EC to conduct yet another redelineation exercise of our electoral constituencies.
This was confirmed through news report on the announcement by the EC chairman that the redelineation work will begin early this year, probably with a motion to be tabled in the Parliament in March and work is likely to be completed with the recommendation report tabled in the Parliament in 2015.
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